General Advice Needed

Hi Everyone,

Just joined the site and after some advice if i can please, I have been trying to optimise my website and seem to have hit a brick wall. I dont truely understand SEO but want to learn more and more. Will you have a look at my site unbeatablelifeandcriticalinsurance.co.uk and give me some advice

Cheers

The only thing I would like to suggest you that if possible change the domain name. It is too big to remember.

I think, to put keyword in the domain name you have selected this name. Keyword in domain name has very little impact. Select a domain name which is easy to remember, that will be helpful for branding also.

Thanks for that i got told to chose that domain, as it has the keywords in it that i want to optimise ?

Keywords in domain names did have an impact a while back.

Now they just annoy people!

Your post is rather general. There is probably a long list of things that we could recomend.

Read through this site and once you understand a bit more, post some specific questions then you will get some very valuable advice.

Thank you

Can you look at where i have attached the articles more specifically. I have done hundreds but they have little or no effect ?

I had a brief look.

It looks like you are doing OK.

Your articles are coming into Google's index. You site is indexed and you have some links.

You are targeting a very competetive industry which is probably why you are not seeing the results you are expecting.

I did the following searchin Google.co.uk for UK only and got you on the second page.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cr=countryUK%7CcountryGB&q=%22Critical+Illness+Insurance%22&start=10&sa=N

An observation after having a brief look is that your Keyword Targeting could be letting you down.

Many Thanks for taking the time to do that ! Do you mean I should be calling the articles more relavent keywords ? How about links within the articles as upto now i have not done this and am not sure how to ?

If you didn't understand SEO, why did you get PR 4?
well, why don't you use unbeatable.life.critical.insurance.co.uk ro make it shorter. The content is fine but a little dull try to make it alive where users will know that your site service from the first time they see your site.ei;images. make it alive.

Many thanks for all your advice, I am learning a lot more about SEO by the minute. I am studying more about link building one of our competitors is buying/renting the vast majority of his links is this seen as good practice by google and will this get the desired rankings ? ? ?

Buying links is NOT seen as good practice by Google.

In the short trem it may well benenfit you but I would strongly advise against it.
Its a risky business.

Great content will get you links.

How do Google see that you are buying these links ? What will happen if they find out you are buying them ?

You'll get banned Glenn, and its not worth it as Google see's how your sites are networked, and the risk is too high.

But loads of people are doing it ? They dont get found out ?

They do get found out, Take alook at bestdeal for example, we are choosing to learn from there mistakes, not follow them.

They had it all, and then wreaked it, by just doing too many links.

But you do it ?

http://www.1dollarlink.com/business_and_economy/